Modeling Strategic Interventions to Increase Attendance at Youth Community Centers by Moro-Araujo, Alejandro, Alonso Pastor, Luis, Larson, Kent

“…However, determinants influencing attendance at community centers remain largely unexplored. The novelty of our research comes from using census data, Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF) attendance data, and specific center attributes, to develop human mobility gravitational models that have been used, for the first time, to predict attendance across the BCYF network. …”
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Exploring the relationship between chatbots, service failure recovery and customer loyalty: a frustration–aggression perspective by Ozuem, Wilson, Ranfagni, Silvia, Willis, Michelle, Salvietti, Giada, Howell, Kerry

“…By analyzing interview data through thematic analysis, our study offers two significant contributions. …”
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Behavioural and neural effects of temporal relations between stimuli by Mancari, A

“…Neural activity is known to synchronize to environmental rhythms, which in turn drive modulations of our perception and behaviour that reflect their temporal structure. …”

Characterizing the Life Cycle of Online News StoriesUsing Social Media Reactions by Castillo, Carlos, El-Haddad, Mohammed, Pfeffer, Jürgen, Stempeck, Matt

“…We also find that social media reactions can help predict future visitation patterns early and accurately.We validate our methods using qualitative analysis as well as quantitative analysis on data from a large inter-national news network, for a set of articles generating more than 3,000,000 visits and 200,000 social media re-actions. …”
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Crepuscularis. by Lim, Aaron Zhe Yu.

“…Bringing forth the notion of light, while being an entity within human activities, is a phenomenon of nature to begin with, the project attempts to connect the parallel relation between light as entity and phenomenon by rendering the phenomenal qualities of light into designed lamps that not only function as products but works that affect our actions, emotions and thoughts. This is achieved with the project spanning from the domain of design to that of art, where the designing of a product and the process of artistic creation convene. …”
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Cytotoxic effect of Bajong LN rice methanol extract on human squamous cell Carcinoma, ORL-48 by Vivi Noryati Ahmad, Nur Aliana Hidayah Mohamed, Zulkhairi Amom, Khor, Goot Heah, Nurhayati Mohamad Zain, Indah Mohd Amin

“…Morphological analysis and the Trypan blue exclusion assay corroborated the MTS assay's findings. Our preliminary findings provide the first scientific evidence of the cytotoxic effect of BLN-ME specifically against human squamous cell carcinoma, ORL-48 cells. …”
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Retrieve, reason, and refine: generating accurate and faithful patient instructions by Liu, F, Yang, B, You, C, Wu, X, Ge, S, Liu, Z, Sun, X, Yang, Y, Clifton, DA

“…Finally, it refines the retrieved working experience and reasoned medical knowledge to extract useful information, which is used to generate the PI for previously-unseen patient according to their health records during hospitalization. Our experiments show that, using our method, the performance of 6 different models can be substantially boosted across all metrics, with up to 20%, 11%, and 19% relative improvements in BLEU-4, ROUGE-L, and METEOR, respectively. …”

Relationship between the timing of administration of IgM and IgA enriched immunoglobulins in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock and the outcome: A retrospective analysis by Berlot, G, Vassallo, MC, Busetto, N, Bianchi, M, Zornada, F, Rosato, I, Tartamella, F, Prisco, L, Bigotto, F, Bigolin, T, Ferluga, M, Batticci, I, Michelone, E, Borelli, M, Viviani, M, Tomasini, A

“…<p><strong>Purpose</strong> Because the use of IgM and IgA enriched polyclonal intravenous immunoglobulins (eIg) is a standard of care in critically ill patients admitted to our intensive care unit (ICU) with the diagnosis of severe sepsis or septic shock, we investigated if the delay from the onset of severe sepsis and septic shock and their administration could influence the outcome.…”

Serotype distribution and incidence of invasive early onset and late onset group B streptococcal disease amongst infants in Singapore by Kam, Kai-Qian, Thoon, Koh Cheng, Tee, Nancy Wen Sim, Ang, Michelle Lay Teng, Tan, Natalie Woon Hui, Yeo, Kee Thai, Li, Jiahui, Chong, Chia Yin

“…The incidences of EOD and LOD were obtained by using patients with EOD and LOD who were born in our institution as the numerator and the live births in our institution per year of the study period as the denominator. …”
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Effect of external stimuli on cell adhesion dynamics by Feng, Zhiqin

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The practice of soft power by Henne, Peter S., Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…The article provides insight into the strategies non-state religious actors, states and the media implement in world politics, while also expanding our understanding of soft power in the world.…”
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Effect of accelerated weathering on fire performance and general composition of photovoltaic (PV) back sheets by Mohamed Muhsin Mohamed Baseer Ahamed

“…The samples were placed in the Atlas UV accelerated weathering tester and were operated as per IEC TS 62788-7-2 standards, at cyclic exposure of UVA-340A lamps at 1.00W/m2 at 65°C for 8 hours, and condensing humidity at 50°C in the dark for 4 hours, with water spray of 0.15 hours. …”
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Association between gestational bisphenol a exposure and maternofoetal outcomes: a cohort study in a single tertiary hospital in Klang Valley by Juliana Yusof, Sarah Zulkifli, Mohd Shahril Ahmad Saman, Danial Efendy Goon, Nurliana Abd Mutalib, Nur Izzaty Yusnazery, Izzuan Khirman Adnan, Siti Hamimah Sheikh Abdul Kadir

“…Additionally, the neonatal outcomes including mode of delivery, gestational age, birth weight and need for NICU admission were documented. Our LC-MS/MS analysis showed that BPA was present in all the urine samples, with levels varying from 4.42 to 30.86 ng/mL. …”
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Effects of kinesio taping on Hamstring-to-quadriceps ratio on non-injured female amateur competitive team sports athletes by Tan, Priscilla Hui Yee

“…Methods: 11 female soccer players underwent 1 pre-test and 2 post test, 2 hours and 48 hours after KT application on their non-dominant leg, in a within-subject repeated measures study design. …”
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My garden of you by Chen, Zhi Lin

“…When my youngest brother was born, my paternal grandmother from Taiwan flew exactly 3,231 kilometres from home to be with my family to look after him when my parents were at work. …”
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Machine learning driven synthesis of two-dimensional materials by Chia, Jia Jun

“…No humans are born perfect and as such people tend to make mistakes or have limited capabilities in certain aspect as compared to machines. …”
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Soft cells and the geometry of seashells by Domokos, G, Goriely, A, Horváth, ÁG, Regős, K

“…Remarkably, these ideal soft shapes, born out of geometry, are found abundantly in nature, from cells to shells.…”

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

“…Understanding these amazing providers can aid us all as we face, at some point, the ultimate challenges in our lives.…”
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Italian literature in the US and UK since 1945: translation and interaction by Saroldi, A

“…</p> <p>Across its three chapters, the thesis traverses the realms of prose, poetry, and theatre, examining for the first time the case studies of William Weaver’s translation of Giorgio Bassani’s <em>Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini</em> (1977), Charles Tomlinson’s translation of Attilio Bertolucci’s <em>Selected Poems</em> (1993), and Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s American tour of 1986, featuring on-stage translators Ronald Jenkins and Maria Consagra.…”

The effects of global versus local processing styles on ingroup favouritism by Ma, Chen

“…Social categorisation in turn facilitates comparisons between in- and outgroups. …”
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